Background
BERSENEV, Ivan was born on April 23, 1889 in Moscow.
BERSENEV, Ivan was born on April 23, 1889 in Moscow.
Studied at Law Faculty, Kiev University and Lcpkovsky Drama School.
From 1907 actor, Solovtsov Theater, Kiev. Also performed in Odessa, Vinnitsa and Yekaterinodar. From 1911 actor, Moscow Arts Theater.
From 1914 also acted in films. 1924-1936 actor, from 1925 stage director and from 1928 artistic director, Moscow Academy Arts Theater. 1936-1938 actor and stage director, Theater of Moscow Oblast Trade-Union Council.
1938-1951 actor and artistic director, Lenin Communist Youth League Theater, Moscow. Roles: on stage: Rodet in Tri sestry (Three Sisters). Zhadov in Dokhodnoye mesto (A Lucrative Post).
Mitya in Bednost' ne porok (Poverty Is Number Vice). Johannes in Hauptmann’s ’’Einsame Menschen”. Malcolm in Shakespeare's ’’Macbeth”.
The Coroner in L. Tolstoy's Zhivoy trup (The Living Corpse) (1911). Petr Verkhovenskiy in Nikolay Stavrogin (1913), after Dostoevsky. Zagoretskiy in Griboyedov’s Gore ot uma (Woe from Wit) (1914).
Boris Godunov in A. Tolstoy's Smert’ Ioanna Groznogo (The Death of Ivan the Terrible) (1927). Pierre Massoubre in Deval's "Supplication for Life” (1935), et cetera Film roles: Tsikhovskiy in Mechanical miloserdiya (The Sword of Mercy) (1918).
Kartashov in Velikiy grazhdanin (The Grand Citizen) (1939). Marshal Tito in Vgorakh Yugoslavii (In the Mountains of Yugoslavia) (1946), et cetera Productions: co-producer, Afinogenov’s Chudak (The Crank) (1929).
Producer: Afinogenov's Salyut Ispanii (Salute to Spain) (1936). Gergey and Litovskiy’s Moy syn (My Son) (1939). Simonov’s Paren’ iz nashego goroda (A Lad From Our Town) (1941).
Korneychuk’s "Front” (The Front Lincolnshire) (1942). Company-producer, Ibsen’s ’’Nora,” et cetera
Communist Party member from 1947.